Bhaskar Tukaram Auti
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Bhaskarrao Tukaram Auti (born 1914) was a freedom fighter who played a major role in Indian Independence movement and was elected as a MLA for four consecutive terms from Parner District Ahmednagar Constituency. He won a seat representing Parner in the 1952 and 1957 Bombay Legislative Assembly elections. In the 1952 election, he stood as a Communist Party of India candidate. He was the first Communist MLA of India in the first general elections conducted post-independence. He obtained 12,570 votes (56.67%).[1] In the 1957 election, he stood as an independent, obtaining 14,519 votes (71.05%).[2] In the 1962 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election he finished in second place in Parner, obtaining 6,787 votes (24.93%).[3]
Bhaskarrao Auti belonged to a Maratha family and was born in Parner in 1914, in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India. He completed his law degree, after which he entered the civil service of the British Raj, but subsequently resigned to join the Indian independence movement.